National Award winning crtic Baradwaj Rangan summarised it in his review: "The story of a police investigation is detailed in a smart, grown-up movie that gets most things right."

Each of these actors seems more seasoned here than he has playing nice young men (or buffoonish ones, in Mr. Platt's case) in grown-up movies.

Finally, Hollywood has come up with a grown-up movie - but it has failed to flourish at UK box offices.

Just made it back from a grown-up movie (The Kids Are All Right) and a grown-up conversation with a cabbie (female) to see another great, grown-up Mad Men ep.

And "Baby Boy," though it has enough street smarts and good humor to attract a young audience, is essentially a grown-up movie, compassionate and attentive, but disinclined to pander or to coddle.

His last grown-up movie was in 1978: "California Suite," in which his flinty elegance in the physical comedy could not leaven Neil Simon's tired huffing-and-puffing.

So he had a go at making some grown-up movies, such as The Color Purple and Always - films dealing with heavy subjects such as relationships, conflict and bereavement.

He had drained all the childlike wonder from his grown-up movies, but the grown-ups were still sitting with folded arms and stony faces, unimpressed.

Universal is willing to make grown-up movies, and thank God for that," he said, "but it has to be framed in a way that helps.

"Chuck and Buck" is an antidote to the current epidemic of lazy nostalgia for the innocence of childhood and therefore, magically, one of the few truly grown-up movies you're likely to see this year (Scott).